Bio-Generator Development
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This document is in the brainstorming phase. Please add your ideas and scenarios to further the dialogue. Intro Bio-Generator & Sheltering The ultimate goal is permanent, autonomous, expansion throughout the home solar system and for use on Earth by family sized bio-generators for a water and air system free of toxins and growing pollution. So many visionaries are talking about end products like colonizing Mars and living in spinning cylinders. The bio-generator is the first product. When looking at the endless requirements it becomes clear this is a colossal undertaking. Action must be purposeful and immediate upon realizing the centuries it will take to achieve expansion. Humanity must have full permanent bio-generator habitats. The expansion is the insurance we will have the time and arena to develop the interstellar grade technology to reverse engineer Earth. This simple lack of expansion may be the answer to the Interstellar Question. The first Lunar bio-generator must be an international project like the ISS. It is unknown how much water and other resources are attainable from the Moon. Expandability must be part of the design so other nations can add on to the expandability of the bio-generator. If a sealed habitat can’t be developed here on Earth then it will never happen. There is big talk about colonizing Mars and the Moon. There is zero action to make bio-generators. The diagram above will be the first lay out for the experimental self sustaining closed habitat as far as recycled biological materials with the aim to continually produce more soil by adding carbonaceous dirt. (carbonaceous being used here as a catch-all term) Project Bio-Generator Part 1 Bio-Generator - Moon Mars Architecture Part 2 Bio-Generator - Solar System Expansion Part 3 Bio-Generator - First Prototype Part 4 Bio-Generator - Soil Generation Project Sheltering Project Bio-Generator Bio-generator Terms ● Oxygen Cycle - most basic need is ability to turn carbon dioxide into oxygen (while also harvesting food) ● Aeroponics - raising plants by mist ● Hydroponics - raising plants without soil ● Aquaponics - circulates water and fish waste through the roots of plants ● Aquaculture - raising fish ● Vertical Farming - Borrowed term to produce the most in the space available ● Dirt - no life giving nutrients or plant raising ability other than holding of water ● Soil - processed dirt until the medium has the bacteria and worms to breakdown further Why aquaponics? Because soil is not available until a biological system can generate the soil. The Black Soldier Fly process enables soil generation by way of human feces and produces larvae for fish and that process generates plant food. Will the humans eat the grubs? Nope. Part 1 Bio-Generator - Moon Mars Architecture The First Lunar Based Bio-Generator Supports 4 Requirements: ● Expansion System - Expansion from Moon to Mars (Lunar South Pole for first version of bio-generator then as aqua sphere at Lunar Gateway and for Mars transit, and then bio-generators placed on Mars and/or Mars moons and asteroids (25,500 known NEAs) parked in Earth and Moon orbits. The system continually increases the mass of air, soil, food. ○ Assume the first Lunar Station will have all the ingredients for full sheltering. ○ Bio-Generator should be the primary design of the first habitat. ○ At the least, the equipment used to build first sheltering will continue on building secondary sheltering for bio-generator and bio-generator expansion by building adjacent structures sharing the same wall and then knock out new doors between as expanding. ○ If shelter printing is a slow process (slow gaining of ideal material?) then the bio-generator may need a more modular/compartment design with just living quarters first and then add features. ○ Once a bio-generator is running then sheltering can expand on all sides to more compartments. So the number and size of aquaponics tanks built into the bio-generator should be big enough to max out as needed over time. This strategy could be reversed to just having one tank in the first structure and expansion structures add one tank as needed within their own structure. Lunar scenario primary requirement is enough greenery for the carbon oxygen cycle to support the number of inhabitants. ● Give Life - Aquaponics to filter air, water, oxygen CO2 cycle, give fresh food. To keep the precious resources cycling so they don’t have to be replaced. Expansion instead of regression. Will expand the volume of available soil and air (gas as a compost and human product) to expand into more compartments. ● Aqua Spheres at Lunar Gateway and Mars transit for full radiation protection. Several projects with large inflatable habitats to add to the Gateway are in progress. Could be a double walled version processing waste products in the outer opaque layer and the inner fish layer with see-through wall for the life giving movement of fish and bubbles. ● Integrate Bio-Generator into the user’s life. By living in the system, the system will do more than supplement the meals. This lends to the simplicity of gardening. KISS ○ Aesthetics of greenery towering over the space and intermittent across the space and moving in the air current ○ A cleaner one vat system can be used for stationary swimming and bathing. The Objectives and Surface Details of the First Lunar Bio-Generator A bio-generator generates food, oxygen (oxygen-carbon cycling), and filters air and water. Built into the architecture of the structure so aquaponic lanes divide up the user living space. The aquaponics vats are a linear system (of water movement in racetracks) across the living space. Vats are part of the sheltering construction and the water holding surfaces will need to be processed (glassing). The vats are pools of water and fish alternating with the crop growing sections (where water is moved over shallows). So the surface of the water is the same height through the system with alternating fish pools, filter compartments and greenery shallows. The filter compartments will most likely be shallow to control movement throughout the filtering area to prevent dead areas. The system is not likely to be as intense and high output as a commercial system and more subdued for stability and toxins processing of the air for the closed habitat. A more intense system may not have the best air? A livability system incorporating the food process into the living/sleeping area for morale and the carbon oxygen cycle. These can run through the living space to give greenery and movement of water for audible aesthetics, along with air movement through the greenery. This will also break up the space for more organic living and separation of the first Lunies. The height of the vats at waist high? The crops can grow to the ceiling. Imagine pea flowers and vines climbing to the ceiling and maybe across some of the ceiling? One system will be separated from the rest for bathing and stationary swimming. System is regulated by measurements of algae, fish waste, oysters, fish to curb any one factor of system bio-overload and to provide materials for soil generation and greater nutrition to the plants and thus humans. The Objectives and Surface Details of the Aqua Sphere(s) ● Quasi aquaculture/aquaponics and radiation protection for the users. ● Support and stocking of spheres comes from the Lunar bio-generator. ● Spheres for use at Gateway and Mars transit. One could be sent off to Mars as the other is coming back. ● Ideally as part of a tether system for artificial gravity, specially for Mars transit. ● Having 2 sets allows regenerating one back to optimal levels after Mars transit. ● The passenger needs the tending of their foodstuff and fish. ● Swimming fish give visual aesthetics. Robotic system to clear the algae off the inner shell or only clear some of the surface to allow more algae growth for an overstocked system. Aqua Sphere for Mars Circuit ● Overstock sphere with fish from Lunar stock for Mars transit. ● Fish population recovers in Mars orbit. ● Algae blocks from the Lunar bio-generator to feed fish/snails etc. in the initial overstock phase. ● Snails eat fish waste. Fish eat snails and algae. ● Shrimp versus fish versus fresh water oysters for this ultra packed and closed system? ● An automated system tracks the fish and algae/waste/nitrogen content of the water to ensure only enough fry develop to maturity. Food Container Shipping ● Container system for transporting Moon production to Gateway and Mars. ● Detachable ion rockets to move containers ahead of user missions to Mars. ● Containers can travel back to Gateway with Martian samples and/or ice harvested from... ● Food wrapped in water for keeping maximum nutrition? ● Capture by automated Mars Moon storage/orbit. Part 2 Bio-Generator - Solar System Expansion Earth Development - Meeting Off-Planet Expansion Permanence/Performance Criteria ● Each establishment is a producer for more expansion seeding and duplicate facilities for emergency and biological failure backup. ● Printed expansion compartments are added adjacent -- sharing the wall to a functioning habitat/generator. When a new compart is fully aired and functioning then drill out the wall of the old habitat to finish the doors between. ● Evolution plan for the first bio-generator to achieve highest human interaction and usable space for morale and physical health (eventual exercise and swimming in aquaponics). ● Multiple copies of different size generators for proving stability and re-seeding process. ● Medium and large habitats to test stability of bio-generator. Some facilities for constant re-seeding exercises. The scrubbing of some copies sterile and see if they are repeatable and how quickly established from seeding from the compact seeding generators. ● Compact non-habitat bio-generators for repeat reseeding to evolve the seeding process.